Christopher Joseph Bauer |
| Posted 2019-01-07 by Judy Wight Branson |
| Prescott Evening Courier, Prescott, Arizona Friday, March 11, 1938, page 3.1 Goo-Goo Bauer Dies Of Attack The boy who used to have fist fights with Florella H. LaGuardia on the way to and from Prescott grade school is dead. Christopher Joseph Bauer was his name, but everyone called him Goo-Goo. His father Charles Bauer, was an Eleventh Infantry bandsman at old Fort Huachuca and later at Whipple, where also LaGuargia's father was bandmaster, which fact no doubt gave rise to the fist fights because of the arguments: 'My dad can blow a horn better's yours.' When the mayor of New York came here on Easter, 1935, for his first visit to Prescott in 26 years, he and Goo-Goo met and recalled the old days. It was the biggest day in Goo-Goo;s life. Since then he has received various letters from Mayor LaGuardia, each of which he and his family treasured. Well, Goo-Goo, who was employed in various capacities by the City of Prescott from 1912 to 1931, including seven years as a paid fireman, had been working lately as night watchman at the new armory at City Park. His 'period' ended Saturday, which meant a week's lay-off before his turn came again under the WPA. Early Thursday morning, without warning, he had a fatal heart attack in his 620 East Churchill avenue home. Bauer was a native South Dakotan, born into the army but he never enlisted in it. Fort Sully was his birthplace, December 13, 1883, which made him 54 years of age. When a boy of 4 his parents brought him to Fort Huachuca, then to Prescott in May, 1891. Surviving are his widow, Nellie; four daughters, Mrs. Georgia Jones, Corpus Christi, Texas, Dorothy, Gabriella, and Grace, Prescott; a son, Leonard, Prescott; three brothers, John of Prescott and Edward and Leonard of Los Angeles; three sisters, Mrs. Harry O. Gaskin, Sr., and Mrs. Jane Genung, both of Phoenix, and Mrs. Caroline Lambertine of Los Angeles. A. J. Lee of Prescott is a brother-in-law. Bauer was a paid fireman for the seven years prior to 1925 and belonged to the Toughs Hose company of the Prescott Volunteer Fire department. Mrs. Bauer, who has been working at a resort at the natural bridge near Payson, arrived in town Thursday at 6 p.m. for the funeral, the time for which has not been announced by the Hunter Mortuary. See Also: Arizona Gravestone Photo Project |
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